Joe Hill (1879–1915) was a Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World.

JOE HILL ARTICLE
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Hill

JOE HILL LYRICS
http://www.folkarchive.de/hill.html

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Signe Aurell, who may have come from the Glimåkra-Osby district of Kristianstad, Sweden, emigrated to America around 1914 and worked as a laundress in Minneapolis, where she belonged to the IWW. Her poems appeared in "Allarm", "Arbetaren", "Bokslugan" and the Stockholm anarchist paper "Brand". In 1919 she privately published a collection of verse called "Irrbloss" (Will-o'-the-Wisp). Returning to Sweden in 1920, she was living at Osby in 1955 when interviewed by the Stockholm Communist daily "Ny Dag". There are two poems about Joe Hill (Josef Hillström) in "Irrbloss". Aurell's translation of "Joe Hill's Last Will" is in the 1924 songbook "Sånger av Joe Hill".

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Songs and hymns from which Joe Hill took his melodies

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Lyrics: Joel Hill

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Lyrics: Alfred Hayes
Music: Earl Robinson

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"Revive Us Again" provided the melody for "Hallelujah, I'm A Bum", a song attributed to Harry McClintock.

JOE HILL SONGS AND ORIGINAL TITLES

1911
The Preacher And The Slave (In The Sweet Bye And Bye)

1912
Casey Jones (Casey Jones)
Coffee An' (Count Your Blessings)
Everybody's Joinin' It (Everybody's Doin' It)
John Golden and the Lawrence Strike (A Little Talk With Jesus)
The White Slave (Meet Me Tonight In Dreamland)
Where The Fraser River Flows (Where The River Shannon Flows)

1913
Down In The Old Dark Mills (Down By The Old Mill Stream)
Mr. Block (It Looks Like A Big Night Tonight)
Nearer My Job To Thee (Nearer My God To Thee)
The Old Toiler's Message (Silver Threads Among The Gold)
Scissor Bill (Steamboat Bill)
Should I Ever Be A Soldier (Colleen Bawn)
Stung Right (Sunlight, Sunlight)
There Is Power In A Union (There Is Power in the Blood)
The Tramp (Tramp! Tramp! Tramp!)
The Girl Question (Tell Mother I'll Be There)
We Will Sing One Song (My Old Kentucky Home)
What We Want (Rainbow)

1914
It's A Long Way Down To The Soup Line (It's A Long, Long Way To Tipperary)
Ta-Ra-Ra Boom De-Ay (Ta-Ra-Ra Boom De-Ay)


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